xlwings – Replace your VBA code with Python, a powerful yet easy-to-use programming language that is highly suited for numerical analysis. Supports Windows & Mac!
DataMeet Data Catalog – The catalog of datasets and data sites by DataMeet community. This includes links to datasets owned by communities, governments and organizations.
“a two week long event in Dharamsala, India with participants from all around India and all around the world. It’s organized by CCC and freaklabs as well as participants from MIT Media Lab, Tibetan Children’s Village, Dharamsala International Film Festival, Ghoomakad hackerspace, and many more.”
DataMeet Data Catalog – The catalog of datasets and data sites by DataMeet community. This includes links to datasets owned by communities, governments and organizations.
DataBootCamp India -Hack the Budget at the capital’s biggest data journalism event yet, between September 5-7. The Open Data Bootcamp is co-hosted by the International Center for Journalists, the Hindustan Times, Hacks/Hackers New Delhi, Data{Meet}, and the 9.9 School of Communication. The three-day event will take place at the Bridge School of Management at Cyber City in Gurgaon.
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MapShaper enables online editing of Shapefile .shp, GeoJSON or TopoJSON files.
The GDELT Project monitors the world’s broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world.
Google Maps under CBI lens for mapping sensitive areas – As per the National Map Policy 2005, “the responsibility for producing, maintaining and disseminating the topographic map database of the whole country, which is the foundation of all spatial data, vests with the Survey of India”.
The many shades of rape cases in Delhi – A six-month long investigation by The Hindu has revealed that the nature of reported sexual assault in Delhi is far more complex than earlier imagined. Among the key findings is that a third of all the cases heard during one year dealt with consenting couples whose parents had accused the boy of rape.
Data and information technology: There is growing excitement about the power of open data as a tool both to inform policy and spending decisions and to hold governments to account for commitments they make. What will this data and technology driven transformation in the development project “marketplace” actually look like?? How might citizens use data to provide feedback on government services and development projects? What will it take to get there?
